THE Ember Players are launching their new season with Jekyll and Hyde, running at Walton Playhouse, from Thursday to Saturday, November 18 to 20, at 8pm.

Marc Anderson stars in this dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous horror story in which Dr Jekyll’s experiments to discover the key to man’s inner reality turns his ‘real’ self into the monster and savage murderer Edward Hyde.

Marc plays both Jekyll and his scary alter ego.

“I'm not going to say I was in two minds about taking the part on,” he said, “But it`s challenging enough for an actor to get into a single character – two is a much bigger ask, especially with instant changes from one personality to the other.”

Twice nominated for Best Actor in the Elmbridge Drama Festival, Marc Anderson is an experienced and versatile character actor whose credits include Rev T Lawrence Shannon in The Night of the Iguana, Alan Bennett in The Lady in the Van and Lieutenant Gruber in ‘Allo ‘Allo.

He recalls: “The late Peter Sellers couldn’t deliver a performance until the character had completely taken him over.

“His family never quite knew who or what would walk through the door at the end of a day’s filming. Until Jekyll and Hyde closes, I’m under orders to keep Mr Hyde under lock and key in the rehearsal room.”